Tag Archives: 1996 in San Francisco

This group’s six core members — guitarist, main singer/songwriter, and producer Josh Babcock; bassist Adam Dobrer; theremin participant Lorelei David; pianist Dave Isbister; saxophonist Dave Dunstan; and drummer Mike Evans — had been native Californians, the majority of whom fulfilled each other if they had been attending classes in the …

This pianist was the only real female in the band of four Teagarden siblings set on lifelong musical courses by their mother, ragtime pianist and music teacher Helen Teagarden. A lot more famous, obviously, than either Norma Teagarden or her brothers Charlie Teagarden and Clois “Cubby” Teagarden — trumpeter and …

Like any decade, there have been incredible music highs and lows through the ’90s — undoubtedly the lowlights being the senseless deaths of such promising artists as Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon, and Sublime’s Brad Nowell before every could fully develop their talents. Nowell was created on Feb …

Found out by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong within an East Bay golf club, San Francisco’s One Man Army gets the distinction of experiencing the first discharge on Adeline Reports, Armstrong’s label. Begun by Jack port Dalrymple (electric guitar/vocals), Brandon Pollack (drums), and Adam Kotter (bass), the music group is …

San Francisco’s American Heartbreak was shaped in 1996 by guitarist Billy Rowe, recently orphaned from the dissolution from the commercially overlooked but critically preferred Jetboy, also featuring ex-Hanoi Stones man Sam Yaffa. As well as vocalist Lance Boone, bassist Michael Butler (previously an associate of Bay Region thrash kings Exodus!), …

Self-proclaimed “pests in the machine,” the duo of Andrew Jervis and Dave “Skyjuice” Biegel came together in 1996 following Jervis spent time being a DJ, while Biegel played out bass in hip-hop, reggae and jazz groups. The music they’ve produced together as Pests is likewise eclectic, cross-cutting jazz-funk, drum’n’bass, and …

AudioInformationPhenomemon label mind Marc Bianchi began the electronic-based space pop task Her Space Vacation mostly being a bedroom undertaking in 1996, after departing the hardcore picture. (He’d performed in rings like Indian Summertime and Relaxed.) Releases throughout that formative period included the Sound Astronomy 12″, Astronauts Are Sleeping, as well …

The idea behind Mushroom, a band that dabbles in space rock, Delta blues, Krautrock, and jam band-ism, is among freedom — never make the same album twice and make an effort to do something differently each and every time you get on-stage. Mushroom are recognized for known for an ever-changing …

San Francisco-based ska/golf swing purveyors Monkey shaped in 1996 around a shared love of (obviously) ska, but additionally through their solid affections for spirit, jazz, Latin, and rock and roll. Their self-produced, self-issued debut recording, Changito!, shifted over 6,000 devices in 1997 and propelled this ambitious music group into a …

San Francisco’s experimental turntablist trio Live Human being shaped in 1996, when turntablist DJ Pursuit (aka Carlos Aguilar), drummer/percussionist Albert Mathias, and bassist Andrew Kushin united their varied musical experiences to generate spontaneous, constantly mutating instrumental hip-hop. Amongst their additional credits, Aguilar caused DJ Darkness on songs for Quannum and …